Seeing how heavily this depends on node.js, I'd love to see it distributed through NPM. NPM already provides a centralised and clean package management system

Seeing how heavily this depends on node.js, I'd love to see it distributed through NPM. NPM already provides a centralised and clean package management system which can handle updates and installing executables and it makes it possible to make the engine a dependency of your game code. It's the sort of thing that put me off meteor before, it doesn't seem like a great decision to reinvent the wheel. I noticed that during the install step it clones a number of other repositories as submodules, perhaps these would do well as individual NPM packages and the central package depends on each one? Edit: having a play now and it's very cool :) Unlike another who reported silent failure when running basil on Ubuntu 12.04, it's working well for me on Xubuntu 12.04. I had a permissions issue as stated in the install guide, would it be possible to have this install to the home directory instead and add it to the local user PATH? This sort of thing seems like it would make more sense to install just for the local user.